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Rebecca, now 14 months, was constantly on Smolowe's mind as she wrote this week's story about the controversy surrounding "transracial" adoptions. "As I read about people who champion the idea that it would be better for children to languish in temporary foster homes than be adopted into families of another race," says Smolowe, "I had to work hard to separate the reporting from my feelings." Senior editor Lee Aitken, whose daughter Sophie, 4, was adopted in Bulgaria, argues that in stories like this, firsthand experience can make for better journalism. "At some point, the adoption ordeal always brings...
...Senate Whitewater hearings drew to a close today with last-minute witness David Margolis, as associate deputy attorney general,flatly contradicting the testimony of former White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum. According to Margolis, the White House and the Department of Justice agreed on the day after Vincent Foster's death on a plan for searching his office. Under the plan, Department of Justice lawyers with security clearances would briefly scan each document for highly-sensitive content, then turn over every other document to the Park Police. But when Margolis arrived for the search the next day, Nussbaum, he says, told...
Maybe not, but Stephen Neuwirth, a Nussbaum deputy, told Senate investigators that Nussbaum suggested to him that Thomases and Mrs. Clinton were concerned about "unfettered access to Mr. Foster's office." White House officials dismiss all the maneuvering as innocent...
...Senate Whitewater hearings lumbered into their second week. The most dramatic testimony: a Secret Service officer who testified that he had seen the First Lady's chief of staff, Maggie Williams, remove files from deputy counsel Vincent Foster's office on the night of his suicide-and Williams' emphatic testimony that she had done no such thing. The handling of Foster's files are at the heart of allegations that the White House impeded the investigation into his death in order to protect the Clintons from Whitewater disclosures...
Testifying before the Senate Whitewater panel, former Clinton Advisor David Gergen recalled that the President was "grief-stricken" upon learning of the suicide of his childhood friend Vincent Foster. Former White House chief of staff Thomas "Mack" McLarty told the committee the President was not informed of Foster's suicide note when it was found almost a week after his death...